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Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Anyone to Hack DNA
How long until people are making bathtub crystal meth with GM yeast?
blacksmith_tb
on Nov 7, 2017
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While a talented lab might be able to make yeast produce ephedrine (since Ephedra sp. do that naturally - no idea how complex that is, though, I am not biochemist), I don't think there are any organisms that synthesize methamphetamine directly...
dekhn
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Nothing about this idea is unrealistic.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/09/15/modifie...
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